BITSTAMP SERVICE TEMPORARILY SUSPEND
Bitstmap’s hot wallet was compromised and Bitstamp sent out an e-mail to their customers that they should not make any deposits to the previously generated deposit addresses as the private keys are most likely not safe. Now Bitstamp is offline with the following message to its customers: “We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015. As a security precaution against compromises Bitstamp only maintains a small fraction of customer bitcoins in online systems. Bitstamp maintains more than enough offline reserves to cover the....
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